Ala Kharatyan

Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts Matenadaran, Yerevan State University, Department of Medieval Armenian Literature and Philology, Senior Researcher

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THE ALLEGORY OF THE BIRD AT THE BASIS FOR SECULARIZATION OF THE MEDIEVAL ARMENIAN POETRY (From Hovhannes Sarkavag to Mkrtich Naghash)

THE ALLEGORY OF THE BIRD AT THE BASIS FOR SECULARIZATION OF THE MEDIEVAL ARMENIAN POETRY (From Hovhannes Sarkavag to Mkrtich Naghash), 2022

The article examines the motif of the rose and the nightingale in the poetics of Mkrtich Naghash,... more The article examines the motif of the rose and the nightingale in the poetics of Mkrtich Naghash, as well as the transformation that the motif of the bird underwent in the medieval Armenian literature up to Mkrtich Naghash. On the one hand, the article shows that the use of the allegory of the rose and the nightingale by Mkrtych Nagash fits into the framework of this oriental motif, which became widespread in the Middle Ages, and that the allegory of the bird cannot be considered a purely Armenian and religious-Christian phenomenon. This is a result of a cultural dialogue based on internal texts (texts created in the Armenian culture) and intercultural dialogue, and both the national and intercultural memories are ambiguous in content.
On the other hand, the article considers the dialogue between the rose and the
nightingale as an important way of secularization of literature. Communication
with others indicates a different progress that overcomes the isolation of the Middle
Ages.
Based on the study, it is concluded that the poetics of Mkrtych Naghash's
poem "The nightingale told the rose" contained realities that began with the work
of Hovhannes Imastaser-Sarkavag that ultimately created an integral structure,
through which it is possible to speak about serious changes in the worldview that
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occurred in that era. In this sense, it is shown how Mkrtich Naghash's poem, using
the allegory of the rose and the nightingale, reflects various cultural changes in the
author's era and ultimately proves how a change in intercultural relations has
changed literature qualitatively. The article examines how historical and social
changes become poetry, and poetry becomes evidence.
According to the theory of Hovhannes Imastaser, the bird enters the literature
and undertakes a poetic process of rapprochement with nature, a reassessment of
nature, which after a short time also transforms itself into a love allegory.
The article concludes that the main problem is the introduction of nonreligious motifs into literature, the change of consciousness, the abandon of the
poeticization only of religious motifs. In this sense, the allegory of the rose and the
nightingale plays an important role in the poetization of the realia of life in
Armenian literature, which should offer an image love as natural, as well as the
mundane and natural. In the poem by Mkrtich Naghash, the interpretation of folk
speech shows that the allegory of the nightingale and the rose no longer expresses
religious content and establishes the liberation of poetry from religious awe.

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